In the final paper from our Voices and Ethics panel, Professor Craig Howes (Centre for Biographical Research, University of Hawai’i) argues that digital technologies are bringing into being new biographical forms that demand critical attention – from Facebook ‘Year in Review’ slideshows to military drone operators’ ‘kill lists.’
Public Roundtable: Voices and Ethics Part Three with Craig Howes
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The Politics of Digital Life
In September 2015 King’s College London hosted a meeting of Ego-Media’s international network, bringing together academics from around the world who share our interest in how digital media are reshaping understandings of identity and modes of representing the self. The meeting was punctuated by a series of thematic discussions
Tags: agency, archives, data, identity, museums, politics, prosthetics, surveillance
Who Does the Internet Think You Are?
A few weeks ago London’s Science Museum hosted an evening of talks, workshops and performances on the theme of computing, and the Ego-Media team were there using the defiantly analogue format of the post-it note to ask visitors some questions about online identity. Getting people to stick sheets of fluorescent
Tags: data, digital, internet, memory, privacy, social media